Books!
Woo-hoo! My new Michael Connelly book, Crime Beat, just arrived in the mail!
I have read all his books, and I am a true crime fan, so I’m guessing this will be a treat. Reviews on Amazon aren’t good, but I’m not Connelly’s usual audience. I’m more interested by non-fiction than I am by novels. I think it will be fascinating. I’ll let you know whether I was right.
Also, I just finished listening to the Books on Tape version of Finders Keepers, by Mark Bowden. He reads it himself. It’s a great story, and I’m eager to see the apparently mediocre movie based on the story: Money for Nothing.
Finally, I will be getting an advance copy of the new Anonymous Lawyer novel. Blogging has its privileges.
i’m a huge connelly fan. picked up “crime beat” the first day out and paid full retail. send yours back. i’ll give you mine. it’s currently being used as a paper weight. nothing really wrong with the book – it’s just that it is nothing more than repackaged newspaper articles. nothing new between the pages.
mark (296599) — 5/18/2006 @ 7:53 amI like true crime also, but I like crime novels, too. Right now, I’m enjoying “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr. I understand that there’s another one with the same cast of characters, and I’m looking forward to reading it.
CraigC (4d10e2) — 5/18/2006 @ 8:18 am“The Angel of Darkness” is the other Caleb Carr book. I thought it was as good as “The Alienist.” In the “Alienist” John is the narrator; in the other the narrator is Stevie. Good stuff about New York, though some of the scenes with TR are over the top.
I also like Connelly. I read one of his early efforts and it was only so-so– too many long passages where he shows off that he was once a police reporter. His last few novels have been excellent. Funny how some writers improve, some get worse. I would put Frederick Forsyth and Alistair MacLean in the latter category. “Day of the Jackal” was great, his latter stuff sucks. Same with MacLean.
craig mclaughlin (265bd2) — 5/18/2006 @ 1:24 pmI enjoy reading both fiction and non-fiction. But there is so much of thrill involved in crime among the other non-fiction.Always something new coming up and this holds u throughout the whole book.
mike (6232f5) — 5/19/2006 @ 10:01 pmLooking forward to read it!